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Hell Above Earth

Hell Above Earth

Frater, Stephen

Paperback

Military BiographiesAir CombatWorld War II

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 1250021200
ISBN13: 9781250021205
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Mar 19 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

After the twists and turns in Goering's many missions, Frater finishes with a stunning revelation . . . the author delivers an exciting read full of little-known facts about the war. A WWII thrill ride. - Kirkus Reviews

The U.S. air battle over Nazi Germany in WWII was hell above earth. For bomber crews, every day they flew was like D-Day, exacting a terrible physical and emotional toll. Twenty-year-old U.S. Captain Werner Goering, accepted this, even thrived on and welcomed the adrenaline rush. He was an exceptional pilot--and the nephew of Hermann Göring, leading member of the Nazi party and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe.

The FBI and the American military would not prevent Werner from serving his American homeland, but neither would they risk the propaganda coup that his desertion or capture would represent for Nazi Germany. J. Edgar Hoover issued a top-secret order that if Captain Goering's plane was downed for any reason over Nazi-occupied Europe, someone would be there in the cockpit to shoot Goering dead. FBI agents found a man capable of accomplishing the task in Jack Rencher, a tough, insular B-17 instructor who also happened to be one of the Army's best pistol shots. That Jack and Werner became unlikely friends is just one more twist in one of the most incredible untold tales of WWII.

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